Lawzer Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 On 18/09/2018 at 07:42, JOCKNEY said: Great stuff Tony There are lots of these tractors still around up here affectionately called "Grey Fergies" a mate in Mallaig has 6 of them hidden in various places so SWMBO doesn't know ! I have never seen one in anything but battleship grey, looks like the locals didn't buy the posher coloured ones cheers Pat I'd first read this last night and thought you meant 6 KITS. I guess you mean ACTUAL tractors??? 😁 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 1 hour ago, Lawzer said: I'd first read this last night and thought you meant 6 KITS. I guess you mean ACTUAL tractors??? 😁 Yes 1:1 scale motorised versions, some of the weathering / decay is a little overdone for my taste ! 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 Only a couple of days left for the GB, best I get a move on with the Ferguson! The two main pieces missing from my kit are the steering wheel and column and the seat and spring. I've wound a brass circle for the wheel and added three spokes with round plastic strut. A couple of plastic tubes have been slotted into each other as the beginnings of a column. Pictures on the net show more than one type of steering wheel assembly. I suspect there are a few made up versions out there, the wheel seems to be the first part to get lost. Mine will join the crowd! I've found enough decent pictures of the seat to know what I'm aiming for. I've made a couple of rough shapes with Milliput that can get sanded into seatness once they have hardened. One or the other should do the trick. A bit of flat strut has been bent into a seat spring approximation. This lot should come together pretty soon, and that will be my final contribution to the Group Build. Phew! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhouse Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 7 minutes ago, TonyW said: the wheel seems to be the first part to get lost. Indeed! I once saw an old tractor where the steering wheel had been replaced with a slightly modified mole wrench. 😜 😲 😱 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted October 12, 2018 Author Share Posted October 12, 2018 Just about done here now. The Milliput seat got carved into something resembling the original. I hope my missing original one turns up at some point, but this one will do the job until that happens. The steering wheel went together well. A couple of heavy coats of grey smoothed it all out and made it look one piece. The first attempt at a steering column got scrapped and another made in its place out of plastic tubing. The tube fitted the cutout in the dashboard and slotted into the hole left my the missing original at the transmission end, so it can't be far out from the original one. A couple of plastic collars around the tube busied it up enough to look about right and a throttle lever was added to finish the column off. The lever is a short length of brass, dipped in glue at the tip to make the rounded end. Tonight should see this one finished as far as I can take it for now. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 The seat and steering wheel look as good to me as anything that would have come with the kit. It's certainly looking just like the real thing! Regards, Adrian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted October 12, 2018 Author Share Posted October 12, 2018 Crazy high winds here today stopped any thoughts of working outside in their tracks, instead I finished the Ferguson ... It's done as far as I can take it. The pair of draw bars shown on the instruction sheet were missing from my model. Without a bit more than the sheet drawings to go on I didn't want to build poor substitutes in their place. I might get lucky and end up with the missing parts in time. We shall see. ... more pictures over in the Gallery 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 One for the Top Shelf Tony - or better still, pack it in a sturdy box and send it down to me!! I'm honestly out of superlatives, well played all round. Cheers and many thanks for your excellent and prolific contriibutions.. Dave 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted October 13, 2018 Author Share Posted October 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Rabbit Leader said: One for the Top Shelf Tony - Cheers and many thanks for your excellent and prolific contriibutions.. Dave It's going straight to the Pool Room Dave. 😁 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ventora3300 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Very well done on the 'Fergie', Tony, it's looking pristine. It really is fantastic to see this first kit in the Airfix GB - thanks a bundle. Great to see you enjoying 'nostalgic modelling' - let's keep it going! All the best. Mike. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Well done Tony Having an example of the very first Airfix kit as part of this Group Build is the cherry on the icing on the cake ! cheers Pat 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 What a fantastic result! 😮 I like your approach as well; polish it up but don't lose the character. It may be worth getting a really old stamp and handwriting a letter to Haldane place, cross the address out and put the Marfleet on, then same again with Margate. Sign it Tony, age 7 3/4 (that's the vital bit) then wait a few days before e-mailing an enquiry. Could be a giggle. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Lovely little model. Possibly the most significant model in the GB - the one that started it all. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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